Anyways, you really don't get to be editor in chief by running crap, anymore than you get to CEO by acting like a Dilbertesque pointy hair. Of course everyone has their moments.
Apparently Crawford also told editors that product reviews in the magazine were too critical of vendors, especially ones who advertise in the magazine, and that they had to start being nicer to advertisers. http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/05/pc_world_ed itor.html
Either way deciding if a story was crap or not is in the domain of "Editor in Chief" last I checked.
That really makes a lot of sense, kinda like this company is letting people speed read in very thin collumns rather than approaching the whole shebang.
My personal theory for a couple of years has simply been that when it gets cold out, the germs move to the warm areas. Such as your lungs, your house, your work, and your schools. The key of course is where the germs move in to your lungs, I'm thinking something kinda like osmosis or the way an ameaba seeks light. No proof, just an idea I entertain.
I noticed several things that make it difficult for me to actually evaluate the difference. First each uses a different font, then the one that is supposed to be inferior ends with an incomplete sentance "A cell is" - making it gramatically inferior, if you zoom in you'll notice that the inferior sample didn't compress well in the jpg, the fonts are different sizes, and finally live link labeling the new sample as "Section 1:" provides more contextual information making it in fact more informative. While these changes are subtle each by themselves they are all time tested methods for improving text. Don't blur the text, add contextual info, complete your sentances and use standardized grammar. If this is the standard output from their software then this is truly not impressive. Aside from these issues, haven't people used collumns for a long time too?
When you're a hillbilly kid in the ozarks and your uncle is younger than you, you can call him whatever you want, until he gets big enough to throw your arm behind your back and make you call him uncle. Then when you get older you screw his sister to get back at him.
It's kinda like agreeing with any large polymorphic group of people. It's like agreeing with Germans because they're Germans or disagreeing with the French because they are French, or even going to war in the middle east because some of our enemies are from the middle east. It's like calling all Democrats unpatriotic, because they are Democrats and somewhere some Democrat disagreed with the war. I'm a Democrat, but that doesn't mean I agree with all of them.
If you read the original article that all of this questioning is derived from you realize the article summary has more content than the linked story. This means aproximately nothing. ATI pays lip service to open source software news at 11.
Target audience asshat. Seriously, if you can't see the value of your site being read from phones, gaming systems, and a gamut of other weird little web browsers then you really don't understand the market. Right now 90% of all browsing is from pcs and laptops, but this isn't always going to be true, in fact since javascript (AJAX) is ubiquitous I would suggest that the only place Web 2.0 players are competing is in support for these new browsers. Hell if you really think about it, AJAX is the rape child of M$ and Jscript, which was used to snuff out Netscape and compete better with Java. Any developer that remembers or has slightly studied the browser wars of the nineties should be running in horror every time someone says Web 2.0 in relation to a new system designed to compete with Javascript (that's right it's not AJAX). Our energy is better spent on getting Javascript support for these new browsers and perfecting what we already have. Everything else is busy work, designed to benefit M$, Sun, and anyone else out there playing up the new Web 2.0 paradigm shift in server integrated markup and content delivery.
According to the International Centre for Prison Studies at King's College London, the U.S. currently has the largest documented prison population in the world, both in absolute and proportional terms. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040206.html
Personally, I think it's as much of a threat to the rest of the world as nuclear arms.
I was thinking the article kinda indicates a resolution to the ontology. Most definitions are a product of synonymous/antonymous context. For instance a person cannot understand the concept of clear without simultaneously understanding opaque. This level of search would suggest that if you throw enough generic definition at a term then some logic could be used to say "if we find so many synonyms then we have an accurate definition" this is how AIML works at a basic level. RDF would be like AIML on crack and steroids.
If he truly beleives he is the best man for the position, then opening the debates is brilliant. If however this would easily back fire in a matter of weeks, as opponents grab at the documents and hack away. Either way I think it's a pretty good idea for a democracy. So long as the originals are preserved for reference.
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The latter way of saying it is technically incorrect, but anyone who is even vaguely familiar with factors and prime would instantly understand what I, or the original poster, meant to say.
I think what's going on here is that *most* aren't familiar with factoring as adults. Programmers use it regularly and this is indeed a classic programming 101 type of program to write. I think it's fair to say that most people (even those that studied higher math) don't continue using it on a day to day basis. Going into prime numbers at this level is similar to expecting people to just understand that 7 mod 3 equals 1. Sure modulo is simple and it's even trivial if you understand factoring, that doesn't mean we should expect people to just *know* it. That said I think everyone has taken this WAY TOO SERIOUSLY.
Not to mention the fact that many people are no longer a one computer home. At my house I dual booted my pc for a long while before dropping Windows. That doesn't mean that I don't use Windows at home, it's just not on my main pc anymore. I think this might wind up being the same sort of thing, people buying an Ubuntu Dell in addition to what they have rather than trying to replace what they have going on.
"Equating Jack to the great monsters of the 20th century is simply a hyperbolic retort to those that claim he was simply a man."
Happy? Suppose not, my point is that the man was generally considered a piece of shit. You can cry "Stop it, damn it, just stop." all you want, but it's just hyperbolic crap about how he was a person that magically deserves respect because he's now dead. As if death somehow magically absolves people of all sins. Seriously, why do you care? Now you say I'm a sick bastard, I really don't care, I say Jack was a piece of shit and you get all worked up. You try to justify his shallow view of humanity by the fact that he might have grandkids. Who cares, he knocked some twit up, bravo! He's still responsible for ruining the lives of other people's grandkids, screw him and screw you for defending him.
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Ok, you go first, I'll hit 'em with the stick next, promise.
I think the final estimate of who was producing crap here, is best summed up with the headline.
PC World Brings Editor Back, Removes CEO http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/05/pc_world_bAnyways, you really don't get to be editor in chief by running crap, anymore than you get to CEO by acting like a Dilbertesque pointy hair. Of course everyone has their moments.
Either way deciding if a story was crap or not is in the domain of "Editor in Chief" last I checked.
I guess the basis of my idea is "What does it do when frozen vs what does it do when warm?".
That really makes a lot of sense, kinda like this company is letting people speed read in very thin collumns rather than approaching the whole shebang.
My personal theory for a couple of years has simply been that when it gets cold out, the germs move to the warm areas. Such as your lungs, your house, your work, and your schools. The key of course is where the germs move in to your lungs, I'm thinking something kinda like osmosis or the way an ameaba seeks light. No proof, just an idea I entertain.
I noticed several things that make it difficult for me to actually evaluate the difference. First each uses a different font, then the one that is supposed to be inferior ends with an incomplete sentance "A cell is" - making it gramatically inferior, if you zoom in you'll notice that the inferior sample didn't compress well in the jpg, the fonts are different sizes, and finally live link labeling the new sample as "Section 1:" provides more contextual information making it in fact more informative. While these changes are subtle each by themselves they are all time tested methods for improving text. Don't blur the text, add contextual info, complete your sentances and use standardized grammar. If this is the standard output from their software then this is truly not impressive. Aside from these issues, haven't people used collumns for a long time too?
Damn are you on the money. Thanks.
Marshall Phelps - senate testimony on patents http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/mphelps/07 -26-05PatentTestimony.mspx
Marshall Phelps - Novell http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/06/microsoft_ novell_analysis/page2.html
Marshall Phelps - Sun Microsystems Cached
Marshall Phelps - Precursor to Novell/Microsoft http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/25/ec_erects_ toll_booth/
Marshall Phelps - on the register http://www.google.com/search?&q=Marshall+Phelps+si te%3Atheregister.co.uk
Marshall Phelps - on slashdot http://www.google.com/search?&q=Marshall+Phelps+si te%3Aslashdot.org
Marshall Phelps - on IBM.com http://www.google.com/search?&q=Marshall+Phelps+si te%3Aibm.com
Marshall Phelps and Richard Stallman in the same search http://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Marshall+Phelps %22+%22Richard+Stallman%22
Reminds me of that Stephen King flick, Needful Things.
that was the joke, apparently the inbred have mod points and were plainly offended.
When you're a hillbilly kid in the ozarks and your uncle is younger than you, you can call him whatever you want, until he gets big enough to throw your arm behind your back and make you call him uncle. Then when you get older you screw his sister to get back at him.
It's kinda like agreeing with any large polymorphic group of people. It's like agreeing with Germans because they're Germans or disagreeing with the French because they are French, or even going to war in the middle east because some of our enemies are from the middle east. It's like calling all Democrats unpatriotic, because they are Democrats and somewhere some Democrat disagreed with the war. I'm a Democrat, but that doesn't mean I agree with all of them.
please learn how to read a thread.
If you read the original article that all of this questioning is derived from you realize the article summary has more content than the linked story. This means aproximately nothing. ATI pays lip service to open source software news at 11.
Target audience asshat. Seriously, if you can't see the value of your site being read from phones, gaming systems, and a gamut of other weird little web browsers then you really don't understand the market. Right now 90% of all browsing is from pcs and laptops, but this isn't always going to be true, in fact since javascript (AJAX) is ubiquitous I would suggest that the only place Web 2.0 players are competing is in support for these new browsers. Hell if you really think about it, AJAX is the rape child of M$ and Jscript, which was used to snuff out Netscape and compete better with Java. Any developer that remembers or has slightly studied the browser wars of the nineties should be running in horror every time someone says Web 2.0 in relation to a new system designed to compete with Javascript (that's right it's not AJAX). Our energy is better spent on getting Javascript support for these new browsers and perfecting what we already have. Everything else is busy work, designed to benefit M$, Sun, and anyone else out there playing up the new Web 2.0 paradigm shift in server integrated markup and content delivery.
yes, but, that's true of all web apps.
Man I am free!
I will not be indexed or numbered.
Life is my own.
F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088*
*This number is mine though and you can't use it.
Personally, I think it's as much of a threat to the rest of the world as nuclear arms.
I was thinking the article kinda indicates a resolution to the ontology. Most definitions are a product of synonymous/antonymous context. For instance a person cannot understand the concept of clear without simultaneously understanding opaque. This level of search would suggest that if you throw enough generic definition at a term then some logic could be used to say "if we find so many synonyms then we have an accurate definition" this is how AIML works at a basic level. RDF would be like AIML on crack and steroids.
If he truly beleives he is the best man for the position, then opening the debates is brilliant. If however this would easily back fire in a matter of weeks, as opponents grab at the documents and hack away. Either way I think it's a pretty good idea for a democracy. So long as the originals are preserved for reference.
I think what's going on here is that *most* aren't familiar with factoring as adults. Programmers use it regularly and this is indeed a classic programming 101 type of program to write. I think it's fair to say that most people (even those that studied higher math) don't continue using it on a day to day basis. Going into prime numbers at this level is similar to expecting people to just understand that 7 mod 3 equals 1. Sure modulo is simple and it's even trivial if you understand factoring, that doesn't mean we should expect people to just *know* it. That said I think everyone has taken this WAY TOO SERIOUSLY.
Tell that to this guy... http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/defa ult.mspx
Not to mention the fact that many people are no longer a one computer home. At my house I dual booted my pc for a long while before dropping Windows. That doesn't mean that I don't use Windows at home, it's just not on my main pc anymore. I think this might wind up being the same sort of thing, people buying an Ubuntu Dell in addition to what they have rather than trying to replace what they have going on.
Maybe IBM or Novell could do it.
Correction:
"Equating Jack to the great monsters of the 20th century is simply a hyperbolic retort to those that claim he was simply a man."Happy? Suppose not, my point is that the man was generally considered a piece of shit. You can cry "Stop it, damn it, just stop." all you want, but it's just hyperbolic crap about how he was a person that magically deserves respect because he's now dead. As if death somehow magically absolves people of all sins. Seriously, why do you care? Now you say I'm a sick bastard, I really don't care, I say Jack was a piece of shit and you get all worked up. You try to justify his shallow view of humanity by the fact that he might have grandkids. Who cares, he knocked some twit up, bravo! He's still responsible for ruining the lives of other people's grandkids, screw him and screw you for defending him.